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1. The State of Ohio gave to the United 
States the Hero of the American Republic, — 
General U. S. Grant. 

2. Ohio enlisted 301,000 good soldiers and 
sailors for the U. S. Army and Navy in 4 years, 
1861-1865. 

3. Ohio is the birthplace of five great Ameri- 
can soldier-Presidents, 1868-1900, — Grant, 
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley. 

4. Ohio gave birth to 12 out of 36 Brigadier- 
Generals and Major-Generals who won distinc- 
tion in the Civil War in America. 

5. Ohio gave to the world the greatest of all 
modern orators, Thomas Corwin, and the 
greatest wizard of modern inventors, Thomas 
A. Edison. 

6. Ohio gave to the world of Letters the 
greatest American Diplomat, John Hay, and 
the Dean of American Novelists, Wilham 
Dean Howells. • 

7. Ohio contributed to the Civil War History 
5 of the wide-awake newspaper correspondents 
who were at the front and "on the firing-line" 
— 1861-1865— Whitelaw Reid, J. B. McCul- 
lough, Capt. David A. Murphy, William S. 
Furay, and William H. Chamberlain. Mr. 
Reid and Capt. Murphy are still living. 



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INSCRIBED TO 

WHO FOUGHT, BLED, AND DIED FOR THE PRESERVATION 
OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. 

Oxford, Ohio, the author. 

September 15, 1912. 



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I. 

O silent Commander, whose gift was 

achievement, 
On Mount McGregor his soul found 

release; 
His passing, though, foretold a Nation's 

bereavement. 
War's greatest Captain said, ''Let us 

have peace." 
Ohio his birth State, Point Pleasant his 

home town. 
In Army and Nation won the highest 

renown. 



II. 

O struggling Citizen, whose youth was 

prosaic, 
His hardships out West show mettle 

and worth; 
His vicissitudes limn a striking mosaic. 
War's greatest Captain a marshal from 

birth. 
Heroic in battle and resistless as fate, 
His coolness and vigor gave prowess 

double weight. 



III. 

O sturdy Warrior, whose soul was re- 
liant, 
The sphinx and victor on every battle- 
field; 

He conquered Southern hosts and armies 
defiant. 
War's greatest Captain made his foe- 
man yield. 

From Vicksburg to Richmond all critics 
fain agree. 

He routed Buckner and Pemberton, 
Bragg and Lee! 



IV. 

O splendid Peace-maker, the Nation 
his debtor, 
Like Lincohi pluck'd weeds and planted 
a rose; 

The Union grown larger, the Union lov'd 
better, 
War's greatest Captain made friends 
of his foes. 

One country, one banner, all section- 
alism blocks, 

Americans and freemen — since Appo- 
mattox ! 



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V. 

O stricken Patriot whose name is im- 
mortal, 
No nation on earth has produced his 
peer; 

His thrilhng Memoirs were written at 
death's portal, 
War's greatest Captain compiled his 
career. 

His trials all ended and his triumphs 
complete. 

Bravely died as he lived and sounded 
no retreat! 



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VI. 

O sterling Traveler, welcom'd by all 
nations. 
Modest and manly midst glamour 
that clings; 

The victor feted by foreign legations. 
War's greatest Captain the comrade 
of Kings. 

Plain soldier, world Knighted, their hom- 
age half express'd. 

The greatest of rulers greeted him as 
their guest! 



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VII. 

O stalwart President, his greeting was 
hearty, 
His friendship regal, his word men 
could trust; 
Good measures he approv'd as mandates 
of party. 
Gold standard he judged was timely 
and just. 
The soldier and statesman, not seeking 

praise or blame. 
Hero of our country and resplendent 
his fame! 

— Capt. David A. Murphy. 



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THE GREATEST CAPTAIN OF THE CIVIL WAR 



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THE GREATEST ALL-AROUND COMMANDER 
OF THE world's HISTORY. 



His Personal Description and Characteristics, 
and How the People May Honor Him. 



I. 

General Ulysses Simpson Grant. 

The hero of the American Republic. 

The most sturdy fighter of modern 
history. 

The savior, under God's blessing, of 
our country. 

Grant ranks high with the world's 
greatest warriors. 

Buckner, Johnston, Pemberton, Bragg, 
and Lee were defeated by Grant's armies. 

The four great American Presidents 
now dead are Washington, Jackson, Lin- 
coln, and Grant. 

General James Longstreet's estimate 
of General U. S. Grant's military abihty 

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in 1865: ''I regard Grant as the best 
all-around soldier in the world." 

II. 

General U. S. Grant was born at 
Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, 
April 27, 1822. If living now he would 
be ninety years of age. 

There was nothing in Grant's boy- 
hood or early manhood that marked 
him as "the coming great" general or 
President. But he was a good boy, with 
no evil habits. General U. S. Grant's 
^' grand strategy" was to get his army 
as close to the enemy as possible. "And 
w^hat then?" asked a friend. "Why 
then," said Grant, "up guards and at 
them!" Grant was superb in decisive 
battle moments, and he excelled in that 
coolness of judgment in action which 
Napoleon described as "the foremost 
quality in a general." Mount McGregor, 
where Grant died July 27, 1885, is one 
of the Adirondack Mountains, and is 
situated ten miles from Saratoga. It 
is reached by a narrow-gauge mountain 
road that branches from the Hudson 
Kiver Railroad at Saratoga. 

Grant was the soul of honor and 
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purity. He never swore and he hated 
deceit. On one occasion an officer of 
high rank rushed into Grant's presence 
and asked: ''Are there any ladies pres- 
ent.^ I have a salty story to tell." 
Grant replied, ''There are no ladies here, 
but there are gentlemen." The salty 
story was not told. 

III. 

General U. S. Grant, as a military 
personage, w^as not as handsome as 
McClellan nor as impressive as Thomas. 
Grant was five feet eight inches in height, 
and was therefore taller than Napoleon, 
Nelson, WelHngton, and Farragut. He 
was slightly round-shouldered, but car- 
ried himself erect when on horseback. 
He was a man of cleanly^ habits, and 
required clean underclothing, but he 
seldom buttoned his uniform coat. He 
had a well-formed head and wore a hat 
of seven and one-half inches. He had 
a high brow and a firm-set mouth; his 
eyes were expressive blue, and his hair 
was brown or tawny shade. He had a 
small wart on his right cheek just above 
his beard. His countenance was some- 
times careworn, but his temperament 

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was buoyant and cheerful. He disliked 
music, and had small use for brass bands. 
He weighed at Cairo, 135 pounds; at 
Shiloh, 145 pounds; at Appomattox, 155 
pounds. In a single campaign of less 
than twelve months Grant did what 
McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker, and 
Meade failed to do — captured Richmond 
and Lee's shattered army of Northern 
Virginia. At Appomattox the silent 
soldier happily became the speaking 
statesman. 

' IV. 

I had the honor of meeting and shak- 
ing hands with General U. S. Grant four 
times after the chmax at Appomattox. 
The first time Bishop John H. Vincent 
placed my hand in Grant's at Lake 
Chautauqua, in August, 1875. President 
Grant was there two days. The second 
time was at the Palmer House, Chicago, 
in December, 1879, just after his return 
from his travels around the world. Dur- 
ing the day I was quite close to him 
several times. The third time I shook 
hands Grant was in his office on AYall 
Street in New York, in December, 1881. 
Taking up a copy of my newspaper, the 

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Danville (Kentucky) Tribune, he re- 
marked, ''Captain, your paper was a 
Grant paper," and he indorsed me for 
an official position without my asking 
him to do so. The last time I shook 
hands with him was at the Gibson 
House, Cincinnati, in May, 1883. He 
had just buried the remains of his mother 
at Spring Grove. He was alone for the 
moment, and there were tears on both 
of his cheeks. I was stricken dumb in 
the presence of his great sorrow. I 
clasped his hand in sympathy — his eyes 
said, "I thank you." Alas! it was our 
final interview on earth. 

V. 

I think now that the people of the 
United States should purchase six hun- 
P . dred and forty acres of ground at Point 
i Pleasant, Ohio, and erect there a grand 

memorial building, with fifty-two rooms 
in it, one room for each State in the Union, 
and four to be reserved for new States; 
the building and grounds to be called 
"Grant Park." A subscription of^ one 
dollar from each one of Grant's admirers. 
North and South, would provide ample 
funds. There should be a large hall in 

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the main building for war relics and 
trophies and curiosities, a greenhouse 
for growing choice flowers and plants, 
and an amphitheater capable of seating 
twenty-five thousand people; trees to be 
planted so as to transform the farm- 
land into a wooded park, the park to 
be well stocked with deer and squirrels; 
the main building to be constructed so 
as to front east, west, north, and south. 
There should be twelve gates to "Grant 
Park," and over each gate, in letters of 
gold, these words: "Behold, how the 
United States delights to honor General 
Ulysses S. Grant!" 

Faithfully, your fellows-citizen, 

David A. Murphy. 



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